slaughterous

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The rest remained for a slaughterous hour.

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  1. Bent on killing; murderous. Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me. Shak., Macbeth, v. 5. 14. Such butchers as yourselues neuer want A colour to excuse your slaughterous mind. Heywood, 1 Edw. IV. (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, I. 53).

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  • Therefore they loved her, these grim, slaughterous, and lustful warriors, to whom no other thing of womanhood was sacred, by whom in their wrath or their crime no friend and no brother was spared, whose law was license, and whose mercy was murder. —  Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
  • The rest remained for a slaughterous hour. —  Adventures of a Despatch Rider
  • Therefore they loved her, these grim, slaughterous, and lustful warriors, to whom no other thing of womanhood was sacred; by whom in their wrath or their crime no friend and no brother was spared, whose law was license, and whose mercy was murder. —  Under Two Flags
  • Conquests, triumphs, and slaughterous glory are not very nice till they have ceased to drip. —  Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
  • One of its former members a Prime Minister, a dictator, under a king installed by its slaughterous coup. —  Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
 

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